Doing Business, An Independent Evaluation: Taking the Measure of the World Bank-IFC Doing Business Indicators

Independent Evaluation Group

No 6467 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: Doing Business (DB), the annual World Bank- International Finance Corporation (IFC) benchmarking exercise launched in 2004, is one of the Bank Group's flagship knowledge products. It aims to measure the costs to firms of business regulations in 178 countries and ranks the countries along 10 dimensions. It also aims to advance the World Bank Group's private sector development agenda by motivating and informing the design of regulatory reforms, enriching international initiatives on development effectiveness, and informing theory. By ranking countries and spotlighting both leaders and laggards, DB has attracted the interest of senior policy makers and is claimed to have inspired reforms on business climate issues. DB's lively communications style has helped give the DB indicators an international profile. The report has five sections: the first chapter reviews the intellectual underpinnings of the DB indicators. The second chapter reports on how DB collects and assembles data. The chapters third and fourth discuss the relevance of the dimensions measured by the exercise and their use inside and outside the Bank. And finally, chapter fifth presents findings and recommendations.

Keywords: Private; Sector; Development-E-Business; Finance; and; Financial; Sector; Development-Debt; Markets; Banks; and; Banking; Reform; Private; Sector; Development-Emerging; Markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8213-7552-5
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